Tag Naomi Pfeffer

Big ticket items like kidneys, livers, and hearts aren’t the only things that can be extracted from you after death. A look inside the cadaver trade and its shadowy history. http://traffic.libsyn.com/yaleuniversitypresspodcast/2017-10-5-Organ-Trade.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS

Naomi Pfeffer— The existence of for-profit cadaver purveyors is no secret. Yet, it remains a largely invisible issue. Naomi Pfeffer’s thought-provoking work documents the history, politics, and ethics of the cadaver part trade in the United States and Britain as well as the incredible profits made from unpaid—and often unwitting—sources.

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